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PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. — .

Teachers' sala-
ries.

the teachers of the model and experimental schools
shall be paid in part from the tuition fees derived
from the pupils of said model schools.

Appropriation.

8. The annual sum of ninety-five hundred dollars
is hereby appropriated for the support of the normal
school, to be paid in quarterly instalments by the
treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the
board of state school commissioners, and to be applied

How applied.

to the payment of teachers' salaries and the purchase
of educational apparatus, for the salary of the princi-
pal of the normal school, for text books, stationery,
fuel, light and other incidental expenses of the school.

Donations or
bequests.

9. All donations or bequests of money or personal
property, and all grants or devises of lands for the
benefit of the state normal school shall be held in trust
by the board of state school commissioners.

Report to gov-
ernor.

10. The board of state school commissioners shall,
on or before the fifteenth day of January in each and
every year, make a report to the governor of the con-
dition of the schools of the state ; a statement of the
apportionment of money to the counties and the city
of Baltimore for the support of schools ; an abstract of
the reports received from the board of county school
commissioners, together with such suggestions for the
improvement of schools and the advancement of public
education as the board of state school commissioners
shall deem expedient.

Report to be
printed.

11. And the governor shall cause three thousand
copies of said report to be printed and distributed to
the members of the legislature in those years in which
there is no session of the legislature.

CHAPTER XIII.
Teachers' Institutes.

Where and
when to be held

SEC. 1. A teachers' institute, to continue five days,
shall be held during vacation in each county once a
year, and the county examiner shall be present and
shall give normal instruction to the teachers each day.